Chapter 34: the reign of tai lung
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Right. Now for some more changes in trials of the keyblade! none of the furious five won't be turned to the dark side but the story of the first film will affect on our heroes and the kh team.
With that out of the way, here's the next chapter. Enjoy!
The panda is playing with his action figures with sora and kairi until they hear a cry from po's adoptive father and they see something that sora's new friends are doing.
"Dad what's been goin on?" Po exclaimed upon approaching his father huddled in horror.
"He's eating me out of house and home!", cried the goose at the ramen noddle stand, emitting waterfalls of tears. sonic was eating ramen. Apparently, that was all he had been doing as there was a literal mountain of empty noodle bowls next to him.
"You tried to sit on me!" mantis stood in the street, snarling at the hairy Keyblader.
"Well, sooorrrry!" the beast shot back. "Maybe he just though you were a insect yourself! You certainly look the part!"
"Maybe I should slice you so we can be even!" mantis snarled.
"Bring it on!" Sparks flew between their furious flaming eyes.
"Get away from me!" Running through the streets was Mulan, as fast as her legs could carry her. "Will you just leave me alone!"
"But you are a blooming flower of youth!" Right on her tail was the crane and the monkey going after her.
"Your beauty must be acknowledged!", the crane gushed as he ran. "Let me bask in your youthful glow! You are overflowing with it! A true queen of passion!"
The monkey said. "Stop her crane! We must ask her on a date if she could say yes!"
"Please go away!" Mulan shouted, running as fast as she could from the monkey and his bird brained friend.
Sora, Kairi, po watched this all with unblinking eyes. "Well, you guys certainly are the life of the party here." tigeress was suddenly beside them, looking at the situations with growing amusement. "They've disturbed the peace, cleaned out the ramen supply and caused a local uproar in half the time you would have, po."
"Hey wait a minute!" reminded po. "where's master shifu?"
"Look no further," she said. She pointed to a large crowd gathered in the village centre. Perplexed by her words, they approached the people and waded their way through, finally coming to a disturbing sight on the other side.
"We're devils and black sheep and really bad eggs! Drink up me 'earties yo ho!" Jack Sparrow, devilish pirate captain and shifu, honourable village kung fu master were prancing arm-in-arm in the middle of the crowd, stupid grins on their faces and both spot-lickin' drunk. "Yo ho! Yo ho! A pirate's life for me!"
"I love this song!" shifu laughed, guzzling down another gulp of Jack's wonderful drink.
"Ain't it grand, love!" Jack cried.
"And I love you!" shifu shouted.
"I love me too!" The two laughed in unison and galavanted before the eyes of the stunned, slightly frightened villagers. Sora slapped his forehead. This was so much easier with Donald and Goofy.
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Meanwhile, back aboard the Shera, kid super-genius Wade worked on his latest project: a small robot that had somehow found its way onto their ship while docked on Montressor spaceport. It almost looked like a blue and white trash can with many panels all over its cylindrical body. One cyber eye was in the center of its round head. Even though it obviously came here on its own, it was no longer functioning. They had found it in the ship's power cuplinks, apparently shorted out by a jolt of electricity. Wade sighed. It hurt to work on another project after he'd lost his first one. Cait Sith was probably the best thing he would ever make; and now it was gone after ridding the ship of that Chaser.
"Wrench please," he called to his new assistant. It was placed in his hand by the quiet Shelke. Wade would have liked it better if she talked a bit more, but he couldn't ask for a more capable assistant on this ship. "Once we get this guy up and running again, we can see what he was doing here. Things like this don't happen everyday. Well, for most people they don't."
Shelke merely nodded and stared out the window. As she looked at the many stars and beauties outside, something caught her eye. A slight shimmer in space. She couldn't really explain it, but for a brief moment she thought she saw something. A ship? She tried to get a better look when it suddenly vanished as quickly as it appeared.
"Okay, screwdriver. Shelke?" Shelke was drawn away from the window when Wade called her. "Everything alright?" Shelke turned back to the window, the mysterious ship completely gone from sight.
"I'm not sure," she replied.
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Back in valley of peace in the jade palace, Inuyasha, Jack, Mulan and Beast sat outside the door to shifu's office, lined up like they were waiting for detention. All of their fiascos had caused so much of a ruckus that several elite ninja had been called to detain them. Between tearing sonic away from his food, breaking up Beast from the mantis, calming Mulan down from her stupor, restraining Jack and master shifu from their drunken frenzy; let's just say those ninja will never have a tougher assignment ever.
"What are we waiting for?" Jack asked out of the blue. The other Keybladers all glared at him. "No, seriously."
"ooh my head." Said master shifu holding an ice pack on his head.
"I'm sorry about this whole incident with sora and his friends master shifu." Said po apologetically.
"Sorry? Sorry?! First oogway chose you to be the dragon warrior as a mistake now your new friends decide to cause a ruckus? Even that pirate fed me his disgusting alcohol!" said shifu ticked off. "And now to make matters worse reports say tai lung escaped from prison."
Po and the furious five gasped upon hearing this.
"So that's it," tigeress said gravely.
"Who?" Sora asked.
Master shifu explained "he's a student of mine. But he wasn't no student. I found him when he was just a cub. Therefore I raised him. And when the boy showed talent of kung fu I trained him. Believed him. Told him he was destined for greatness. But it was never enough. But he wanted the dragon scroll. But master oogway saw the darkness in his heart and refused. Outraged he laid waste to the valley. He tried to take the scroll by force. I really tried to destroy of what I have created. But I couldn't do it. I loved him like I'd loved him before or since."
Sora and kairi and po are silent upon hearing this.
"whoa" mumbled sora.
"Unbelievable." gasped kairi.
"And now i had the chance to make things right, to train the TRUE Dragon Warrior. instead i'm stuck with YOU! a big...fat panda, who treats this like a joke." said shifu glaring daggers at po.
He turns to his students. "you're both dismissed. Let me know if tai lung gets here." They both obeyed and exit leaving sora kairi and po with master shifu.
Po gets the courage to speak up. "But what about master oogway? He can stop him! He'll do it again!"
Shifu confessed silently. "Oogway cannot. Because he…passed away yesterday."
They both gasped.
"But…Our only hope is the Dragon Warrior."
"Me?" said po hopefully.
"No!" Shifu argued. "It is not your destiny to defeat Tai Lung! We can handle the rest by ourselves!"
"Permission to speak freely?" said sora spoke up.
"Go ahead."
"How about we do it? With our might we will-"
"I said No!" Shifu argued. "It is not your destiny either! Nobody else's! need I remind you your friends cause too much trouble! Now my first official business is to the furious five-"
"NO!" po suddenly shouted, startling everyone in the room. The panda was panting, possibly from his outburst, possibly from his rage. "I staying because I thought if anyone could change me... could make me... not me, it was you! The greatest kung fu teacher in all of China!" added Po.
"You're speaking out of turn, po," shifu stated sternly.
"I don't care! You don't understand! You have been always acting so high and mighty, he thinks he's better than everyone else. Tai Lung is on his way here right now!" groaned Po. "And even if it takes him a hundred or a thousand years to get here, how are you... gonna need me amongst this? Huh?"
"you're not ready." Shifu said.
"Ready for what? Ready to not allow me to become the dragon warrior?!" protested the panda.
"Ready to forget the book. If you think he would stand a chance against him you're dead. Believe me I know. Because I tried."
"But I am ready! This is my chance to play a part amongst this! I need a chance to do this! So how are you going to keep out of this even if you don't have faith in me?" cried the panda.
Shifu was about to reply, but he froze, unable to say anything.
"How... how?" asked Po.
Shifu closed his mouth, still speechless.
"HOW?!" Po asked again.
"I DON'T KNOW!" yelled Shifu. HE then calmed down as he realized what that meant. "I don't know..." he sighed.
Po's anger changed to sadness. "That's what I thought." he sighed.
Po then sadly walked away and sulked into the corner.
Shifu sighed heavily. He then looked towards Sora, and kairi.
Nervously, the two approached and stood in front of the red panda.
"If you two still here we don't require your situation with Tai Lung."
"But Why?" asked kairi, shocked.
"It's our problem, not yours." answered Shifu. "I'm sorry, but you must leave."
We can still help if you give us a chance." sora offered.
Shifu shook his head. "Like I said, Tai Lung is our problem. We'll be ok."
why do you not have any faith in your students" asked kairi.
Shifu was taken aback by those questions. He then sighed heavily.
"When it came to doubting the panda as he Dragon Warrior, I thought it wasn't meant to be as he never knew kung fu. As for your friends, they don't know kung fu either, and I don't want them to get into trouble with the order if they interfere with our problem. And as for my students... I guess I have little faith in them because... because..." he paused, unable to come up with a good answer.
"Because of Tai Lung?" asked sora.
Shifu tensed a little before nodding. "Yes... I don't know how, but I failed with him. The darkness overtook his heart, and I was unable to cure him from it. I guess when it came to the Five... I had trouble adjusting to teaching new members, as they were nothing like... my adopted son. Look just talk some sense into my misguided student. He'll understand." He said referring to the panda.
"Po," Sora said, sternly. "You can't stand a chance with tai lung on your own." po bowed his head while shifu nodded in agreement. "At least not without me, you can't!"
"That's right, po, not without...what!?" shifu exclaimed. po's head shot back up.
"Becoming the dragon warrior is his area, beating up Heartless is ours," Sora replied with a grin to po's hopeful eyes. "Hope you don't mind me tagging along." po responded with a grin of his own.
"Not at all!" he answered.
"If Sora's going, then I'm going, too!" Kairi declared.
"If we can drop the drama for a moment," shifu interrupted, rather annoyed but also mildly impressed. "I'd like to point out that I'm not about to allow three misfits to take on a fighter as dangerous as tai lung."
"That's why we're going with them!" The door slammed open and in its frame stood Beast, and behind him Mulan, sonic and Jack.
"You know, part of eavesdropping involves not revealing that you're listening," Jack sighed.
shifu also looked over the gathering. he barely knew these people and yet they were offering, no, demanding to help them. Strangers to their village willing to help out of kindness. It was poetic in a way. he smirked.
"Alright. But do your best to win. Tai lung may be a formidable foe. I'll send a message to the furious five and good luck." Said shifu smiling warmily.
"Alright let's go kick some tai lung butt! Get ready to feel the thunder!" exclaimed po.
And so they exit the jade palace.
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They head to the forest where they first met po but the problem is they don't know which direction they should be going to met up with the furious five to take the fight to tai lung.
"Do we have ANY idea where we're going!?" Beast finally snapped, not one for holding in his dismay.
"Sorry, guys," po chuckled uncertainly. "This was a lot easier in my head. But they couldn't have gone far right? Right?"
"Oh yes. What are we to do?" Jack drawled sarcastically. "We are lost in the forest with no ups or downs as to where we are. If only somebody here had a magical compass that could point the way out to us. But where oh where are we going to find someone as handsome and fantastic as that?" The Keybladers glared at Jack. "Jeez. If looks could kill." He walked over to the fat panda, summoning his Keyblade on the way. "Okay, lad, here's how it works. You take the compass, think of your mates, and we'll all be back home in time for rum, savvy?"
po held the compass in his hand. The dial spun wildly out of control and everyone huddled around to see the result.
"Round and round she goes," Beast quipped.
"Where she stops...," Jack finished. Suddenly the dial stopped turning and eight pairs of eyes turned towards a knot of trees where it was now pointing. And it was in that exact direction where the sound of approaching footsteps could be heard.
"We have our heading!" cried jack.
"Let's go guys!" said po seriously and so they head to where the furious five are.
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Meanwhile, the Five raced towards the Thread of Hope, a rope bridge stretched between mountain peaks above a huge abyss shrouded in mist. Tai Lung was racing across the long bridge. Both sides stopped at opposite ends of the last section of bridge, and eye each other. Tai Lung roared and raced across the bridge towards the Five.
"Cut it!" shouted Tigress.
Crane, Viper, Mantis, and Monkey quickly slashed at the ropes securing the bridge to the mountain. Tai Lung was almost upon them when Tigress cut the final rope. But because the snow leopard was too close, Tigress had to launch herself into him, kicking him back. The two felines ended up in the middle of the bridge just as it started to tumble into the canyon below. The rest of the Five grabbed the support ropes and held on for dear life. While Tigress maintained a combative pose, Tai Lung casually leaned on one of the ropes.
"Where's the Dragon Warrior?" he asked, casually.
"How do you know you're not looking at her?" Tigress shot back.
Tai Lung laughed. "You think I'm a fool? I know you're not the Dragon Warrior. None of you!"
Tigress growled that her bluff was foiled. The others exchanged worried looks. Tai Lung began to walk along the rope before leaping back onto the bridge.
"I heard how he fell out of the sky on a ball of fire... that he's a warrior unlike anything the world has ever seen. And how he's also friends with four humans, an beast, and a hedgehog that interfere with my new allies' plans."
Monkey, Crane, Viper, and Mantis exchanged quick and confused look.
"Po?!" asked Monkey, shocked.
"Sora, kairi, and their friends too?!" asked Viper, also shocked.
"How does he know about them?!" exclaimed Crane.
"And who are his new allies?" asked Mantis.
"So that is his name... Po." mused Tai Lung. "And those are the pathetic names of those whom he calls his friends." He paused as he smirked and said dramatically, "Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary!"
Growling, Tigress charged at him. The battle began. Tigress and Tai Lung exchanged blows as they hung from the bridge. Tigress put up a very good fight, but soon Tai Lung began to get the upper hand.
"We got this! Help her!" Monkey told Viper and Crane, who nodded and handed over their ropes.
Tai Lung kicked Tigress, sending her slamming through dozens of board before stopping. While she was stunned, Tai Lung grabbed the ropes and twisted them. The ropes closed on Tigress's throat and she began to choke. At that moment, Viper lunged at Tai Lung, which caused him to let go of the ropes. Tigress was freed, but began falling down into the gorge... but Crane managed to catch her. Viper wrapped herself around Tai Lung's neck and wrist and punched him repeatedly with his own fist. But Tai Lung managed to get a paw around Viper's 'throat'.
"Monkey!" cried Viper, choking.
Monkey looked at Mantis who told him, "Go!"
Nodding, Monkey handed Mantis his rope, leaving Mantis to hold onto the whole bridge. Realizing his mistake, Mantis muttered, straining, "Ack! What was I thinking?!"
Monkey leaped into action, kicking Tai Lung in the chest away from Viper and sending him crashing onto the slats. Mantis groaned as he fought to keep a hold of the ropes. Tai Lung got back onto his feet and started running back to them, switching between ropes. Crane flied up with Tigress dangling from his legs.
"Mantis!" she shouted.
Mantis whipped his end of the rope, sending a sine wave shooting toward Tai Lung. The rope whipped the villain in the face, making him stunned. The Five sw their chance.
"Now!" shouted Tigress.
The others yelled in a battle cry as they charged towards Tai Lung.
Working as a team, the Five kick Tai Lung's butt every which way. Then Crane wrapped Tai Lung in one of the ropes, and Tigress finally slashed the last rope holding him up.
He plummeted down... down... disappearing into the mist. A distant crunch implied that he has crashed into the far mountain.
Mantis whipped his end of the rope, returning his buddies safely to the mountain.
The Five look breathless, but relieved. But the relief is short-lived, as Tigress noticed that the other end of the bridge was circling the far mountain peak. Her eyes went wide with dread. The rope whipped up. But Tai Lung wasn't there. With a crash, he suddenly appeared behind the Five. They whirled around, startled.
Tai Lung looked at them as a small aura of darkness briefly seeped around him. "Shifu taught you well..." he mused, before suddenly striking Monkey in the chest, who instantly froze and collapsed. Tigress, Crane, Viper, and Mantis gasped in horror.
"...but he didn't teach you everything." Tai Lung finished darkly before roaring as he lunged forward, doing the same thing to the rest, paralyzing them.
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All was peaceful in the Village of peace.
A clear sunny day over the bustling metropolis gave birth to the happy mood that was going around. Civilians and ninja alike went on with their daily lives. It was a particularly good day because those weird strangers were no longer present; they could all get along okay now.
They never saw it coming.
At the large wooden gates the two ninja standing guard suddenly stood alert as two unknown figures began approaching down the path. One was abnormally tall and looked like a whale while other was round and rotund resembling a cat. The fat one was spinning some kind of ball on his finger and wearing a smug grin.
"Halt! State your business!", one of the guards shouted. The two didn't stop and the guards immediately tensed. But before they could react the cat tossed the ball he was spinning, rolling it along the ground until it stopped between the two ninja. They momentarily forgot the intruders to stare questionably at the colourful sphere before them. But, without it warning, it exploded; the force was enough to send both guards hurtling back and crashing into unconsciousness, leaving the gates utterly unprotected. The two intruders stopped at the now defenseless gates.
"Nothing like the calm before the storm," Gantu said, almost philosophically.
"You gettin' soft on me, Gantu?", his partner, Pete, asked.
"Nah. Just something I like to say before I start blasting stuff." Pete chuckled again. With a snap of his chubby fingers, their intentions became clear. Hundreds of Ninja and Shadow Heartless appeared around them, innumerable yellow eyes in a sea of shadow, an army of pure darkness.
"Alright Heartless!" Pete hollered. "You are minions of the bad guys! There is no tomorrow! Today, this place is going down! We'll trounce these stupid ninja for Orochimaru! For evil! For general ungood everywhere!"
"ATTACK!" Gantu commanded pointing through the gates. And they did. Like a black tide they descended through the open gates, stampeding madly towards the unsuspecting village.
Meanwhile, shifu, the trainer of the furious five, is trying to meditate when he heard alarmed shouts outside her window. Standing up to look outside, he was shocked to see explosions going off in his village. Fiery arcs went up through the buildings, and he knew that this wasn't normal. The screams and cries of civilians filled the air: cries about invaders, enemies, monsters. Whatever was the cause, it was spreading through her village like a plague.
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"We've been running for hours!" Jack whined as thy ran through what seemed like a never-ending forest. This was not an exaggeration. They had literally been doing nothing but running for the longest time under the direction of jack's compass, with no sign of stopping anytime soon. Wherever the furious five was it was certainly far away. But po must have known where he was going, though it seemed like they were just going in several different directions. "Pirates aren't made for running! Unless it's from danger! They flooooow with the sea!"
"Well, flow with the earth, Captain!" Mulan retorted.
After all their running they find the furious five in a crumpled mess.
"Guys!" said po approaching them and the furious five recover from their unconscious state.
"Oh... my head..." mumbled Mantis, rubbing his head.
"What... what happened to us...?" groaned Viper, rubbing her head with her tail before readjusting her lotus flowers.
"Tai Lung... tried to kill us..." panted Crane.
"But... why didn't he?" asked Tigress.
"Oh thank China you guys are ok!" cried po as he immediately hugged their friends... a little hard.
"Po, you're crushing us." wheezed Viper.
"Oh sorry!" gasped Po as he broke the hug.
"What happened to us?" asked monkey.
"No time! Where's tai lung?" asked po.
"he's heading to the valley of peace." Hissed tigeress.
"oh no. master shifu!" realized po in utter horror.
And the team head back to the valley of peace as fast as they could.
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